This study investigated the psychrotrophic bacteria isolated from chicken meat to characterize their microbial composition during refrigerated storage. The bacterial community was identified by the Illumina MiSeq method based on bacterial DNA extracted from spoiled chicken meat. Molecular identification of the isolated psychrotrophic bacteria was carried out using 16S rDNA sequencing and their ...

The chicken embryo represents a suitable model for studying vertebrate sex determination and gonadal sex differentiation. While the basic mechanism of sex determination in birds is still unknown, gonadal morphogenesis is very similar to that in mammals, and most of the genes implicated in mammalian sex determination have avian homologues. However, in the chicken embryo, these genes show some in...

Broth is a product made from beef or poultry by cooking ingredients rich in protein and water, with without the addition of spices, vegetable fat sodium chloride. This study aims to determine physicochemical properties including crude protein, ash, fat, carbohydrates, water activity, pH as well organoleptic tests three types broth different chicken meat, namely broiler, free-range chicken, IPB-...

Excessive consumption of red meat is associated with various diseases including coronary heart diseases and cancer. Lower health-related problems of chicken meat, consumption of chicken meat, and mechanically deboned chicken meat (MDCM) have been increased due to their cheaper prices. Thereby, chemical, microbial, and physical causes of chicken meat losses and the safety aspects are needed to b...

Does biting food lead to aggressive behavior? An experimental study is reported where children ages 6-10 (n = 12) were served chicken either on-the-bone or pre-cut in bite-size pieces. When children ate on-the-bone chicken, they exhibited more aggressive behavior than pre-cut, boneless chicken. For example, children were more likely to violate the counselor's instructions by leaving the eating ...

Each chicken carcass intended for U.S. consumers is mandated to be inspected by Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) inspectors for its wholesomeness at the processing plants. Fluorescence responses of wholesome and unwholesome chicken carcasses were characterized and further evaluated for potential on-line applications for detection and classification of wholesome and unwholesome chicken ...

Prion-linked diseases, such as mad cow disease, scrapie, and the human genetic disorder Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, are fatal neurodegenerative diseases correlated with changes in the secondary structure of neural prion protein. We expressed recombinant chicken prion protein in Escherichia coli and purified the protein to homogeneity. Circular dichroism spectra of the 26 kDa recombinant protein ...

Little evidence supports the existence of imprinted genes in chicken. Imprinted genes are thought to be intimately connected with the acquisition of parental resources in mammals; thus, the predicted lack of this type of gene in chicken is not surprising, given that they leave their offspring to their own heritance after conception. In this study, we identified several imprinted genes and their...

Chromatin was reconstituted from the purified DNA and histones of chicken erythrocytes and the nonhistone proteins of either chicken reticulocytes or chicken liver. Reconstituted chromatins, native chicken reticulocyte chromatin, and free DNA were transcribed with Escherichia coli RNA polymerase and the concentrations of globin-specific sequences in the RNA products were measured by hybridizati...

Did you know that a droplet of raw chicken juice splashed off raw chicken during washing can travel nearly three feet (Everis & Betts, 2008)? If restaurants don’t take care to avoid cross contamination, raw chicken juice can also drip or splash onto other foods dur­ ing preparation. If it gets onto ready-to-eat foods or food contact surfaces, the con­ sumer can ingest harmful bacteria present i...